Meat. It’s bad. Bad-bad. Really bad-bad.
Right?
Or maybe not.
Everyone’s got an opinion about food. That makes it hard to discuss. But there are some things that are easier to grasp and compare than others, and the science is there. Check what Kurzgesagt says about it:
This is just too cool not to watch. Glass recycling, from using lasers and air to weed out chunks of colored glass, all the way to turning molten glass into a cotton-like insulator.
This from the “strange but true” section – how the richest/most powerful countries have changed over time.
Laser pistols, laser turrets, turbo lasers, laser bombs – Science Fiction is in love with lasers. I get it. They’re cooooool. They’re Space Opera. But lasers in hard SF? Don’t make me laugh.
Lasers, as anything other than a close-range weapon, are completely useless.
Here’s why: Read More
So I follow this woodworking guy on YouTube…
It’s relaxing, it’s beautiful, and watching an expert at work is inspiring. And it’s inspiring me to want something like this…
Have you ever had a case of BITS? That’s “Big Important Thing Syndrome.”
That’s when we attach a lot of importance to something, which then brings with it all manner of strange and destructive critters, from plain fear to insidious perfectionism and delusions of grandeur. Which completely destroys our creative ability.
The solution? Do something that moves you forward that is completely NOT important. Read More
A really cool and surprisingly restful time-lapse (sort of) of a knife-smith making a pattern welded Damascus steel blade.
Grab something warm to drink, lean back, and enjoy!
TLDR: Lucy, a super-sexed girl-next-door, goes on the ultimate power fantasy, as justified by a 13-year-old boy’s rule-of-cool in a movie that fails due to motivational mismatch.
I don’t usually do this, but I’ll review a movie that didn’t work to show why. Also, because otherwise I’d have lost an hour of my life (I skimmed a lot through all the obvious parts).
Synopsis: Lucy is an exchange student in Taiwan, where she is tricked into delivering a case of drugs to a big drug lord. There, she is abused and cut open to become a drug mule with a bag of drugs hidden inside her abdomen.
So far, the movie is a standard thriller: Lucy is forced into a bad situation, the situation gets worse, and everything she does to stay alive and escape is completely inadequate. She’s running while tied to a wall (literally). If you can forgive the cross-cut hunting and lecture scenes, it’s actually a fairly standard setup with some nice cinematography.
But then things change. Read More
TLDR: The increasing popularity of Kickstarter is a death-knell for traditional publishing, but great news for writers, both new and established, who’ll get access to better-paying and faster publishing options.
People, especially new(ish) writers, keep complaining that Brandon Sanderson’s kickstarter is going to hurt writers, publishers, and book-loving aliens from Mars.
I’ve seen arguments that it will make publishers less willing to pay writers, less willing to gamble on new writers, and less willing to publish non-best-selling books.
That’s great news!
Check this: the big trad publishers are dying. Have been for the past 30 years, and it accelerated as online shopping accelerated. Read More
From the WTF-department: Goats Yelling Like Humans, the Compilation.